You should not need to build Jacquard in order to install it. However, if you want to do so, you should (i) edit Make-local-dependencies (ii) type 'make clean; make' (iii) type 'make install' If you merely want to install the supplied jar files, just (i) edit Make-local-dependencies (iii) type make install At some stage we'll produce a downloadable version of Apache Jigsaw with Jacquard installed.